The oil company British Petroleum has shut down a pipeline connecting the Prudhoe Bay oil fields in Alaska to the Trans-Alaska pipeline.

英国石 油公司已关闭一条连接阿拉斯加普拉德霍湾 油田与外联系的管道。

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If a stable column of mud has been set up in the well, keeping the oil at bay through its sheer weight, the next step would be to set cement in the well and seal it off permanently.

如果一个稳定的泥浆柱能在油井里成型，并通过它十足的压力将石油限制在海湾范围，那下一步就是将井里的泥浆粘合好，使油井永久封闭。

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The area has been impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Barataria Bay, just inside the the coast of Lousiana, us.

就在美国路易斯安那沿岸的巴拉塔里亚湾，该地区已受到了深水漏油事件的影响。

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Oil and gas was found in nineteen sixty-eight near Prudhoe Bay on the North Slope of Alaska.

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They shut us down. We have to dump them back in the water." Wildlife officials have suspended fishing here in Black Bay and other areas affected by the oil leak.

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We're talking about the loss here, by the way, of 400, 000 barrels of oil every day while the flow is shut down in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay oil field.

NPR: Marketplace Report: Prudhoe Pipeline Shutdown

In addition, the firm had to close part of its Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska earlier this year, after leaks were discovered in one of its pipes.

BBC: NEWS | Business | BP faces fines after Texas blast

Browne was no doubt referring to last year's temporary closure of some operations at the Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska, delays to the opening of BP's Thunder Horse platform in the Gulf of Mexico, and problems stemming from the 2005 explosion at a Texas refinery that killed 15 BP employees.

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